"Weinberg's Corollary:
An expert is a person who
avoids small errors while
sweeping on to the
grand fallacy. "

The SCADA Web

Welcome to the Web pages of Tek Soft Consulting (ianw@iinet.com.au).

These pages were created to support the SCADA mailing list.
(scada@gospel.iinet.net.au - to subscribe send a message to scada-request@gospel.iinet.net.au
with subscribe in the subject).

The pages also feature a comprehensive collection of
links
to SCADA resources on the WWW. You can submit your firms web pages for
inclusion and if you do
most of the pages at your site will be indexed and included in the
SCADA Search Engine.
This indexing acts like a "Web Spider program" indexing around 2000
SCADA related pages and creates a highly specific search facility for SCADA
information. This unique search engine is one of the most popular pages at this
site. Currently the depth to which sites are indexed is limited due to limited
disc space, so all of your site may not be currently indexed.

The search engine is temporarily unavailable.

You may also send requests for assistance and advice on SCADA matters to
Tek Soft Consulting (Ian Wiese).
Questions that would take research or major effort to respond to are outside
the scope of this offer, but arrangements may be made to undertake these projects.
In many cases you will be referred to other sources for assistance.

There are also a number of articles discussing
standards in the
SCADA industry, and a SCADA primer
which explains the basics of SCADA. For more detailed information about RTU's
click here or
project management of SCADA systems
click here.
For some details of the application of SCADA to water supply systems
click here.
To see a simulated water supply system being controlled by SCADA,
click here (if you have a
800x600 screen and a relatively recent version of IE4 or Netscape (4.07 say)).
For some SCADA humour click here.

I visit many web pages created by
SCADA companies. There are a mixture of standards of web page design, ranging from
excellent to poor. The most fundamental problems are not to do with style,
graphic design, and so on, but with forgetting to do the obvious
such as including your company name or contact information on your web
site. Click here to
review a list of the most common errors, and check out your web site against
this list!

Mnemonic - Said of someone suffering from mnemonia.
Gigabyte - A painful sting on the giga.
Consultant - Someone who borrows your watch to tell you the time.